Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Stacy Keach, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Raisa Ryazanova,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Lindsay Crouse, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

Actors : Allison Balson, James Woods, Victoria Tennant, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : John Flynn,

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right,...

Actors : Ramey Ellis, Alma Beltran, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta,
Directors : James Bridges,

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Actors : Maarten Spanjer, Hans van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better ...

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Eusebio Poncela, Miguel Molina, Carmen Maura,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A film maker's sexual disorientation jeopardizes his latest project.

Actors : Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Kawakami, Takeshi Kitano, Shirô Sano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

Actors : James Fox, Mimi Rogers, Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Caroline Kava,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An FBI agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper agents and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.

Actors : Milo, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kyôko Koizumi, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Masanori Hata,

The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.

Actors : Matthias Fuchs, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

Actors : Simon Yam, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee,
Directors : John Woo,

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Daniel J. Travanti, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.

Actors : James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Haid,
Directors : James B. Harris,

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Actors : Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris, Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone,
Directors : Mori Masaki,

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Actors : John Wood, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Hordern, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a ...

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.